Heel-plate.



J. SOLOMON.

HEEL PLATE,

APPHCATION FILED AUGJ. 19H.

uatezlted l mmmwo a JACOB SOLOMON, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

HEEL-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed August 7, 1911. Serial No. 642.628.

Y St; Louis, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel-Plates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to heel plates, and has for its object to provide a plate of simple structure having means for securely holding the same in place upon the heel of a shoe and about the edge portion of the tread lift thereof. The parts of the plate are so arranged that when subjected to wear the plate must be entirely worn out before it becomes absolutely separated from the heel, and the tread lift is recessed so that the plate may form a portion of its perimeter and so that it may be securely connected with the said plate. I

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a heel with the plate applied; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the tread lift with the plate applied; Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view of the plate taken on the line H of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4: is a top plan view showing a modified form of plate.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters.

The tread lift 1 is provided at its edge with a recess 2 and at its side opposite its tread side is provided with a recess 3 the ends of which are located between the ends of the recess 2. The bottom of the recess 3 is inclined in a downward direction toward the edge of the recess 2.

The heel plate, indicated at 4, which is used in combination with the lift of the configuration as described, fits snugly within the recess 2 and completely fills the same to complete the perimeter or contour of the lift. The said plate is provided with a shoulder portion 5 which completely fills the recess 3, and headed nails, preferably three in number and indicated at 6, are passed through the shoulder portion 5 and the edge portion of the lift 1 under the recess 3, the heads of the said nails being at the upper side or the side of the lift remote from its tread side. The heel plate 4: is provided with a series of nail openings 7, theseopenings being of peculiar configuration, but as they are all alike a description of one will answer. Each nail opening 7 consists of a lower cylindrical bore 8 which passes approximately half way through the heel plate and terminates at its upper end in an annular shoulder 9. A conical bore 10 is concentrically passed through the plate 41- with relation to the bore 8 with its larger end entering the bore 8 and its smaller end opening at the top side of the plate 4:. The nail opening 7 as described is adapted to re ceive a nail having a head portion of the same configuration as the bores 8 and 10 so that the said portion will fit snugly within the said bores and completely fill the nail opening when the said nail is driven home.

The lift 1 is first provided with the heel plate 4 which is applied thereto in the manner above indicated and then the lift is applied to the heel of a shoe in the usual manner and the securing nails of peculiar configuration are passed through the nail, openings 7 and driven into the heel of the shoe. Before the heads of the nails which are passed through the openings 7 are worn off, the plate 4 must be worn approximately in half, or the lower portion thereof must be worn off. However, the nails will still continue to hold inasmuch as the portions of the shanks of the nails adjacent their heads fit snugly in the conical bores 10 of the nail openings 7 and therefore the said nails will continue to hold the plate as long as any of it remains unworn. This will continue even though the nails 6 should break or the lift 1 should be completely worn ofi of the heel together with that portion of the plate 4 which joins directly with the said lift.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

A shoe heel provided with a recess extending partly around the lower edge of its side. that wall of the recess which is in proximity to the tread of the heel being vertical, and the wall thereof which is remote from the tread of the heel, being inclined upwardly and inwardly toward the center of the heel, a heel plate arranged within the recess and disposed with its outer faces flush with the bottom and rear of the heel, its inner face being formed with avertical shoulder engageable with the vertical wall of the recess and an upwardly inclined portion bearing on the upwardly inclined Wall of the recess, said plate having nail openings formed therein, the upper portions of WllICh are of conical bore and extend approximately midway through the plate and terminate at one end at annular and horizontally disposed shoulders arranged substantially in transverse alincment with the outer extremity of said inclined portion of the plate and the lower portions of which are of cylindrical bore concentrically arranged with the conical bores, the said bores of each opening communicating with each other, and said cylindrical bores being arranged substantially parallel with the vertically disposed shoulders of the plate and opening upon the lower face of the plate, and nails having shank portions and heads adapted to completely fill the nail openings in the plate and the bores thereof, the said heads being adapted to engage said annular shoulders.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

MAX MEYER PRIWER, CHARLES CARR ORTON. 

